Netflix continues to accelerate a “Just For Kids” section, bringing on Disney Junior programing.

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Netflix is fast aggregation one of a largest collections of children’s content. The subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) association announced Thursday that it sealed a placement agreement with Disney/ABC Television Group for Disney Junior programing including shows like “Jake and a Never Land Pirates,” “Handy Manny,” “Special Agent Oso, and “JoJo’s Circus.”

The shows won’t be disdainful to Netflix, though will supplement to a already flourishing lineup directed during children. While Netflix sealed an disdainful agreement for Disney calm already, it isn’t due to take outcome until 2017. This new merger will keep a kids still for a few years in between.

Parents are gravitating toward Netflix’s recently launched “Just for Kids” territory since it lacks a advertisements that make kids bemoan for things relatives don’t wish to buy. Of march most of kids’ calm is simply half-hour animation advertisements for toys, though Netflix also accompanies a shows with reviews by Common Sense Media, a non-profit that helps relatives who grew adult with “Looney Tunes” and “Duck Tales” weed by a unknown landscape that is complicated children’s entertainment.

“Disney and Netflix have common a prolonged and jointly profitable attribute and this understanding expands on a implausible choice of Disney calm already accessible for a members,” Netflix arch calm officer Ted Sarandos pronounced in a statement.

Netflix has also partnered with Disney aspirant DreamWorks Animation to emanate an strange charcterised array that will tide on a service. Disney has nonetheless to strike any strange calm deals with Netflix, though it’s tough to suppose that it hasn’t been discussed. In a 2017 Disney deal, Netflix has also won a disdainful compensate TV rights to all Disney films as well, including a arriving Star Wars reboot, Marvel superhero calm and Pixar films.

Gina Hall is a Los Angeles-based author and writer with some-more than 10 years knowledge in television, documentary and underline film production. She is a connoisseur of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and blogs for a Huffington Post during huffingtonpost.com/gina-hall

Joss Whedon.

On  Tuesday, Deadline Hollywood reported that executive Joss Whedon is removing a understanding value $100 million from Disney. Whedon fast took to his possess blog, Whedonesque, to contend he is not, in fact, removing paid $100 million for a subsequent Avengers movie. The Internet quickly illuminated up with stories of Whedon squashing to rumors.

In his blog post Whedon said:

I was going to let it slide, though I’ve got this green ambience in my mouth. (Mmmm, lemonade!). Some contribution are not facts. I’m not going to go into a whole thing, though jeepers, I’m not removing $100 mil on Avengers 2. If we were, we would come on this site and giggle and giggle and laugh. I’m not creation Downey money. I’m creation A LOT, that is exciting. I’m not sanctimonious to be a bad farmer, an Everyman, an ANYman. But that series is nuts.

Case closed, right?

Not quite. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m now researching gain numbers on a biggest stars in Hollywood for a annual Celebrity 100 list. Because The Avengers warranted $1.5 billion during a tellurian box office, Whedon has been a visit subject of conversation.

While Robert Downey Jr. expected warranted during slightest $50 million on a backend of The Avengers, I’m being told that Whedon didn’t acquire scarcely as much. Before The Avengers Whedon was a cult-favorite executive best famous for his TV work like Buffy The Vampire Slayer. His customarily prior film was Serenity in 2005 that brought in a small $38 million.

So because would Marvel give this man a good deal? Part of a proof of employing smaller directors like Whedon (at a time) is that a studio doesn’t have to compensate him a lot. Christopher Nolan, for example, done a ton some-more income off of The Dark Knight Rises than he did off of Batman Begins.

But a thing about a $1.5 billion film is that on a sequel, we do have to compensate up, though not to a balance of $100 million. The studio has to compensate Downey whatever he wants. He’s Iron Man and he can’t be replaced. As most as we competence adore Whedon, he can be transposed  which means he’s not value as most as Downey.

If Whedon gets $10 million on a subsequent film opposite 10% of a initial dollar gross, that will be an extraordinary understanding that will net him a ton of money.

However, Deadline didn’t indeed contend that Whedon would make $100 million for a subsequent Avengers movie. Here is what Nikki Finke wrote:

Acknowledging “I’m doing okay” remuneration wise, Whedon reportedly has a “really abounding deal” value an astronomical $100M for a multiple of product and services including several pics, consulting work, a put commander during ABC, and many other elements that effectively take him off a marketplace for years and years, one source tells me.

Finke is observant that Whedon is removing an altogether understanding from Disney value $100 million. That income would expected be doled out over several years and would mostly compensate for a radio that a association (which owns ABC) hopes to fist out of Whedon. If a Mouse House can cave Whedon’s mind for 5 successful TV shows (that he would expected emanate though not run) that would meant many millions of dollars in ad revenue, syndication and merchandising. S.H.I.E.L.D. is already on rug for subsequent season.

These kinds of deals customarily final about 5 years that would meant Whedon gets $20 million per year (minus what he has to compensate in taxes and to his agents, managers, publicists etc.). Whedon flattering conspicuously doesn’t repudiate that he’s removing a large altogether deal. He only says that he’s not removing that income on a second Avengers.

I’m still perplexing to find out what’s unequivocally going on here though we would not be astounded if Whedon does have a $100 million understanding with Disney that covers several mediums over several years.

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Disneyland’s forward-looking land of tomorrow has seen many evolutions given opening day in 1955. Through a years, there have been vital expansions in 1959 (Monorail), 1977 (Space Mountain) and 1986 (Star Tours) as good as finish makeovers in 1967 (New Tomorrowland) and 1998 (New New Tomorrowland).

The stream iteration has a retro-futuristic scholarship novella anticipation thesis that was designed to be a bit some-more undying though nonetheless is display a age.

Photos: Top 10 Tomorrowland rides of a past

With a recover of “Iron Man 3” and skeleton for “Star Wars” and “Tron” sequels in a works, we suspicion it would be a good time to do a bit of “blue sky” forgetful about what Walt Disney Imagineering competence have in mind for a New New New Tomorrowland.

What follows is some surmise churned with a healthy sip of surmise blended with a heaping assisting of armchair imagineering. Take it for what it’s worth.

During a Bob Iger era, Disney has turn a association of brands – from Pixar to Marvel to Star Wars. And a Mouse has a ton of underused egghead properties – such as Iron Man, Tron and Wall-E- that would fit ideally in any Tomorrowland reboot.

Using that logic, Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters and Star Tours are a close for a foreseeable destiny while feasible all else in and around Tomorrowland is potentially in play. That means Innoventions, Astro Orbiter, Captain EO, Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, Autopia and even a princely Space Mountain could be scrapped or mutated to make approach for a reimagined land. And afterwards there’s a reserve area subsequent to Star Tours, a deserted Rocket Rods lane and even some backstage acreage. All in all, that’s utterly a bit of genuine estate to work with.

So let’s take any of a brands one during a time and see how they competence fit into a renovated Tomorrowland.

Star Wars

Disneyland has been contemplating annual passholders about their seductiveness in a Star Wars-themed land, according to SlashFilm.

The judicious plcae for such a land would be behind Star Tours in a backstage area between Space Mountain and Main Street USA, a mark that has been mentioned as a probable home for other mini-lands in a past.

A Star Wars mini-land is reportedly in a pattern proviso for Disneyland Paris and a subject of prevalent surmise during Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida.

Redd Rockett’s Pizza Port in Disneyland would be ideal place for a Mos Eisley Cantina finish with an audio-animatronic visitor jazz band.

Iron Man

I have to acknowledge we did a double take when we initial saw a twitter announcing skeleton for a Iron Man Tech: Presented by Stark Industries vaunt during Disneyland’s Innoventions building. For a brief, passing impulse we suspicion Disney had finally announced a long-rumored Iron Man ride. Instead what we got was a walk-through of film sets and props that feels like a destiny reserve of a long-rumored E-Ticket attraction.

We had been wondering for a while where Disney would initial deliver Marvel characters into a parks, though this feels like a baby step.

Hong Kong Disneyland will reportedly get a initial Marvel-themed land, according to a China edition of a Wall Street Journal.

Tron

Fans have been forgetful of a Tron LightCycle float given a strange film came out in 1982. The 2010 recover of “Tron: Legacy” usually reignited a sad thinking.

Electronic Arts (EA) and The Walt Disney Company have announced a multi-year video diversion agreement for a Star Wars franchise. The understanding will concede EA to rise and tell new Star Wars titles opposite mixed interactive platforms. No financial terms of a understanding were disclosed.

Disney Interactive’s Co-President John Pleasants pronounced in a statement: “This agreement demonstrates a joining to formulating peculiarity diversion practice that expostulate a recognition of the Star Wars franchise for years to come. Collaborating with one of a world’s premier diversion developers will concede us to move an extraordinary portfolio of new Star Wars titles to a fans around a world.”

Under a terms of a agreement, EA has a rights to rise and tell Star Wars games, though Disney will keep a rights to also rise new titles within a mobile, social, tablet, and online diversion categories.

EA Labels President Frank Gibeau says that 3 of a studios, BioWare, DICE, and Gibeau, will be operative on producing a new games.

This is a one of a initial diversion chartering deals that Disney has done following a purchase of a Star Wars franchise from Lucas Arts studio behind in Oct 2012. Months later, a media hulk wound adult shuttering a studio. Last month, Disney pronounced that it will concentration on chartering a diversion properties instead.

Publishing Star Wars games isn’t new to Electronic Arts. It has been concerned in a mythological array for a while, including Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Photo credit: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — The Walt Disney Co. (DIS) wants we to trust that it’s different, and quarterly benefit from a world’s largest party association are certain to uncover a large benefit for a film studios, a sheer contrariety to declines during a film units of rivals Viacom Inc. (VIA)and Time Warner (TWX).

The approaching benefit for Disney’s Studio Entertainment section will be mostly due to a quarterly comparison with a $84 million writedown incurred as a outcome of a wave famous as John Carter. The Carter failure placed a film in a barbarous association of Ishtar and Heaven’s Gate for film losses. Disney is scheduled to news a mercantile second entertain benefit after a tighten of trade currently in New York.

Disney gained 1.6% to $66.07 Tuesday to extend a allege over a past 12 months to 51%.

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As a outcome of a comparison, Michael Nathanson, media researcher during Nomura Equity Research, is awaiting Disney’s Studio Entertainment to uncover a distinction miscarry of $17 million, and that turnabout should assistance a company’s altogether numbers.

Across a industry, film studios continue to underperform other tools of a media conglomerate’s several businesses. Viacom’s Paramount Pictures reported declines in income and handling income while sales forsaken during Warner Bros. as a outcome of unsatisfactory numbers for Jack a Giant Slayer and Gangster Squad.

Also see: Big Media Is Doing Just Fine, Thank You

Disney did get a large boost over a weekend from Iron Man 3, that posted $175 million in U.S. income for a debut, second top ever to usually The Avengers. Worldwide, Iron Man has already brought in $680 million. Of course, those millions won’t be enclosed in today’s news as they’ll be practical to a stream quarter.

Much of Disney’s expansion stays powered by a entertainment parks and ESPN. The Burbank, Calif.-based company’s mercantile second-quarter formula are approaching to simulate those strengths. Advertising during Disney’s wire networks is foresee to strech 7% while associate price income is foresee to grow 12%, Nathanson said.

Overall, Disney is approaching to news an 8.8% benefit in sales to $10.5 billion, according to a normal guess of 25 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Operating income is foresee to strech $2.4 billion while benefit per share will sum 77 cents per share, according to Bloomberg researcher surveys.

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Nomura is forecasting Disney’s sales for a initial 3 months of 2013 to have reached $9.6 billion, a 9.4% boost from a same duration a year ago. Nathanson also anticipates benefit of 77 cents per share.

On a call, Chief Executive Robert Iger is approaching to speak adult a opening of a company’s cable-TV networks as good as ABC. ESPN benefited from sporting events such as a Super Bowl and a NCAA basketball tournaments. One reversal for Disney was a preference to postpone a recover of a Infinity video-game complement to Aug rather than June. Infinity is approaching to accelerate income during a company’s Interactive unit.

“We design mercantile second-quarter to be an rhythm indicate for a company, with a step-up in underlying associate price growth, as a Comcast / ESPN understanding along with other smaller [multi-channel] placement deals flog in,” Nathanson wrote in an financier note.

Written by Leon Lazaroff in New York

Deja vu all over again, as a SP will open during a record level. The index finished yesterday’s unchanging event aloft than ever before during 1,617. The dow slipped slightly, though 15,000 stays within easy reach.

Later now we find out how many sorcery Disney (DIS) has been making. It releases quarterly gain after a shutting bell. The batch strike a all-time high yesterday. Shares are adult 50% in a past year, and many analysts still rate a association a buy. Of march we’ve all been conference about a Mouse House’s latest Iron Man film that has already raked-in $600 million globally. That’s not partial of a entertain left by. Some things that are: another strike film, Oz: The Great and Powerful. Disney has also inked new deals with wire companies for a money cow ESPN. And it has been capitalizing on LucasFilm, a new $4-billion purchase, only yesterday announcing a understanding with video diversion builder Electronic Arts (EA). Consensus is for a association to acquire 76-cents a share, a 32% arise over final year. Revenue should be about $10.5-billion.

The quarrel over online sales taxes now moves to a House of Representatives. A check sailed by a Senate yesterday. The devise would impact online retailers with some-more than a-million dollars in annual sales. States could force them to collect sales taxes from all business and send them in. The states would have to yield program to assistance businesses make a right calculations. If a magnitude passes a House that would discharge a rival advantage for online retailers like Amazon and eBay, though that’s a large if. Republicans are divided on a plan, and so distant they haven’t scheduled hearings or a vote.

Now we can buy Viagra online, legitimately. Pfizer (PFE) has set adult a new website in and with CVS caremark. It began handling yesterday. Pfizer says this is a approach to quarrel counterfeiting. The association also predicts a pierce will boost sales by expelling a annoyance of creation a outing to a drug store. However, group will still need to revisit a alloy to get a prescription.

Microsoft (MSFT) is looking for a new Window of event by creation what a financial times expel as one of a many distinguished admissions of disaster for a new mass-market consumer product. The FT reports a association is approaching to announce an refurbish to a Windows 8 handling complement reversing march over pivotal aspects of how a program is used. Windows 8 is Microsoft’s initial handling complement designed essentially for hold screens. The changes should make it easier for a handling complement to work on smaller tablets. Despite a troubles Microsoft batch has still managed to strike a new 52-week high, only bashful of $34 a share.

STOCKS TO WATCH

Electronic Arts (EA) is adult scarcely 3% in early trading. Shares were also adult several points yesterday on proclamation of a understanding with Disney to make “Star Wars” branded video games. Electronic Arts is also releasing a quarterly news after today’s shutting bell– only like Disney. It was during a past entertain that a association altered CEOs. Electronic Arts is approaching to post gain of 58-cents a share, some-more than triple a volume a year ago. Revenue is also approaching to arise above $1-billion.

Next adult is Crestwood Midstream Partners (CMLP), that is stating a gain this morning. The association missed flattering badly, logging only 7-cents a share when estimates were for 12-cents. It also missed on revenue. Just yesterday Crestwood announced a $7-billion partnership with Inergy Midstream (NRGM). Both companies specialize in tube and storage services for shale fields. Rapid expansion in a attention has combined direct for new appetite infrastructure. The proclamation sent shares 3.5% higher. The batch is adult about 11%year to date.

Now, BroadSoft (BSFT) that is now adult 10% in premarket trading. The program builder posted gain of 18-cents a share when it expelled a quarterly news after yesterday’s shutting bell. That simply kick estimates of 11-cents. Revenue was also aloft than a consensus. BroadSoft says it’s benefitting as business switch their information storage to a cloud. Billings were adult 16% from a year ago. Shares of BroadSoft plummeted roughly 30% in Feb when a association lowered a outlook, though have been climbing behind given then.

Finally, there’s MBIA (MBI) that is adult another 4% now after skyrocketing an strange 45% yesterday. The batch shot adult on a proclamation of a $1.7-billion allotment with Bank of America (BAC). MBIA was suing BofA over bad debt corroborated securities. The spike puts MBIA during a 52-week high, and means shares have risen 75% given a start of a year.

The Walt Disney Company ( DIS ) is slated to
report a second-quarter mercantile 2013 formula on May 7, 2013, after
the marketplace closes. In a final quarter, it posted a positive
surprise of 2.6%. Let’s see how things are moulding adult for this
announcement.

Growth Factors this Past Quarter

Revenue gains during a Parks and Resorts business and strong
performance of a Media Networks multiplication continue to boost the
company’s financials. Disney stays focused on a core businesses
to emanate long-term expansion opportunities. Further, new affiliate
deals have helped boost a company’s profit.

Earnings Whispers?

Our proven indication does not conclusively uncover that Disney is
likely to kick gain this quarter. This is since a batch needs
to have both a certain Earnings ESP (Read: Zacks Earnings ESP: A Better Method ) and a
Zacks Rank #1, #2 or #3 for this to happen. This is not a case
here as we will see below.

Zacks ESP: ESP for Disney is 0.00%. This is
because a Most Accurate Estimate stands during 77 cents, that is in
line with a Zacks Consensus Estimate.

Zacks Rank #2 (Buy): Disney’s Zacks Rank #2
(Buy) lowers a predictive energy of ESP since a Zacks Rank #2
when total with 0.00% ESP creates warn prophecy difficult.
We counsel opposite bonds with Zacks Ranks #4 and #5 (Sell rated
stocks) going into a gain announcement, generally when the
company is saying disastrous guess revisions momentum.

Stocks that Warrant a Look

Here are some other companies we might wish to cruise as our
model shows they have a right multiple of elements to post an
earnings kick this quarter:

Campbell Soup Company ( CPB ), Earnings ESP of
+1.79% and a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy)

JJ Snack Foods Corp. ( JJSF ), Earnings ESP
of +0.90% and a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy)

Dish Network Corp. ( DISH ), Earnings ESP
of +1.89% and a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).

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